Ons Jabeur:
Tunisia’s tennis trailblazer.
Highest-ranked
Arab player is hoping her Grand Slam success will pave the way for other
Muslim women.
Tunisia’s top tennis player Ons Jabeur is having a breakthrough year on the
court and is hungry for more success.
Shaheen's
career-best 'five-for-52' sees Pakistan to big win over Zimbabwe Seamer
Shaheen Afridi took a career best five for 52 as Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by
an innings and 147 runs early on the fourth day of the second Test at Harare
Sports Club on Monday. It was the fourth successive series win for Pakistan
on a southern Africa tour.
Pakistan vs Zimbabwe
Test Match: Pakistan take total control on the second day of the second
Test. Pakistan took total control on the second day of the second Test
against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club on Saturday, outclassing the home
side with both bat and ball to take a big step towards sealing a 2-0 series
victory. Zimbabwe went into the match with three leading batsmen missing
because of injury.
Kohli batting position:
I am going to open in the IPL as well: Kohli. The final T20I saw Kohli
promoting himself to the top of the order. The India skipper also made the
promotion count with an unbeaten 52-ball 80. Kohli confirmed that he would
'like' to continue opening the innings with Rohit in T20Is, and added that
he would bat at the top of the order in the upcoming IPL as well.
India vs England:
Clinical India clinch series 3-2.
Dawid Malan and Jos Buttler's quickfire half-centuries went in vain as
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shardul Thakur ensured that England fell 36 runs short
in their pursuit of 224 for 2 in the series decider, a total setup courtesy
fifties by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
Massive body blow to
Portugal as Ronaldo tests positive for virus.
Ronaldo “is
asymptomatic” and “will not play against Sweden” in Wednesday’s Nations
League match, the federation said on its website.
Luvo Manyonga:
Former long jump world champion fined for public drinking. South
Africa's star long jumper Luvo Manyonga, who famously overcame a crystal
meth addiction to win gold at the 2017 World Championships and silver at the
2016 Olympics, is in trouble with the law again.
Inzamamul Haq
wants former captain Salim Malik deserves another chance.
Pakistan batting great Inzamamul Haq believes that former Pakistan batsman
Salim Malik should be given another chance by involving him in some kind of
cricketing activity.
PCB to allow players to partake in upto three foreign
T20 leagues The board
tweaked its No-Objection Certificate policy, to make room for the
centrally-contracted players of Pakistan to take part in up to four T20
leagues in all - including PSL.
Pakistan inflict
innings defeat on Bangladesh in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan needed less than 90 minutes on Monday to claim the last four
Bangladesh wickets and steamroll the tourists by an innings and 44 runs
inside four days in the opening test in Rawalpindi.
Bangladesh squad
returns to Pakistan for first cricket test. Bangladesh was
originally scheduled to play three Twenty20 Internationals and two test
matches, but agreed to split the tour into three phases because it did not
want to stay in Pakistan for a longer duration because of security concerns.
Domingo confident
of 'pushing' Pakistan in their own backyard.
Russell Domingo, the Bangladesh head coach, urged his team to approach the
Test series against Pakistan with a positive mindset
Kumar Sangakkara to
Lead 12-Man MCC Squad For Pakistan Tour. MCC will play a series
of T20 matches against two Pakistan Super League teams – Lahore Qalandars
and Multan Sultans and will also face their domestic T20 champions Northern
next month.
Cueist Asif given
hero's welcome for world title Pakistan’s top cueist Mohammad Asif arrived in Karachi and was received
to a hero's welcome after winning the IBSF World Snooker Championship title
in Turkey.
I can never cheat
Pakistan, I was surrounded by match fixers, Shoaib Akhtar
“I was always
of the belief that I can never cheat Pakistan, no match-fixing. I was
surrounded by match-fixers. I was playing against 22 people, 11 theirs and
10 ours. Who knows who was the match-fixer. There was so much match-fixing.
Sourav Ganguly
officially elected as BCCI president
Sourav Ganguly has been officially appointed as the president of Board of
Control for Cricket (BCCI) at the Annual General Body Meeting in Mumbai on
Wednesday. He has become the 39th president of the nation’s governing board
for cricket, and the second captain of the national team
Nepotism tag won’t go
away: Imam Opening batsman Imam-ul-Haq believes he may never be accepted
by Pakistan fans for what he is as opposed to him being batting great and
former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq’s nephew.
Umar Akmal determined to take fresh start Middle-order batsman
Umar Akmal was named among the 20 probables for the upcoming series against
the Islanders
Smith: One to tick off my
bucket list Australia’s Steve Smith says an Ashes triumph in England had been high on
his "bucket list" after failing to win the urn on their two previous visits.
Abdul Qadir Profile
Lahore-born
Qadir took 236 wickets in 67 Tests between 1977 and 1990, also capturing a
further 132 in 104 one-day international appearances.
England World Cup hero Ben Stokes
declines nomination for 'New Zealander of the Year'
England cricket hero Ben Stokes has declined his nomination for 'New
Zealander of the Year' after his man of the match performance against New
Zealand in the World Cup final.
Sri Lanka's Karunaratne picks India to win World Cup Sri Lanka captain
Dimuth Karunaratne has backed India to win the World Cup after losing to
Virat Kohli's side at Headingley.
England's Chris Woakes on the art of death bowling
It is limited-overs cricket at its
most dramatic: the outcome of an entire match boiled down to the final six
deliveries.
IPL records you may not
know about. With 4985 runs in 176 matches, Suresh Raina is the
leading run scorer in IPL history. The left-handed batsman has played for
both Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Lions and more...
PCB paid $1.6 million
to Indian board: Mani. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
has paid the BCCI approximately $1.6 million as compensation after losing
the case in the ICC's Dispute Resolution Committee, PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani
claimed on Monday.
Messi sets new
Barcelona record in scintillating Levante performance. As well as
leading Barca to the record-breaking win, Messi sent several individual
records tumbling on a scintillating evening.
Belgium beat Netherlands in shootout to win Men's Hockey World Cup 2018.
A gritty
Belgium defeated former champions the Netherlands in sudden death in a
thrilling summit clash to win their maiden men's hockey World Cup title at
the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.
Pakistan batsman Babar Azam slams anchor Zainab Abbas. But the
24-year-old Pakistan batsman apparently didn't like word 'sons' in Zainab's
tweet as it suggested he gets special treatment from the Australian coach in
the Pakistan dressing room.
ICC Dismisses Pakistan Cricket Board's Financial Claim Against Indian
Cricket Board The International Cricket Council's (ICC) Dispute Panel on
Tuesday dismissed the financial claim made by the Pakistan Cricket Board
(PCB) against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Pakistani Gold
Medalist seeks help from Indian Government
In a
video posted on YouTube Ahmed said, "Today I need a heart and I need the
support of the Indian government". Mansoor won World Cup of Hockey for
Pakistan in 1994.
Wimbledon 2017: Who is greates of them all!
Federer’s eighth Wimbledon title proved no-one has ever hit a tennis ball as
beautifully or more successfully than him.
Hockey World League London ~
India vs Pakistan
India and
Pakistan, the two giants of Asian Hockey face each other in the Pool B match
of the Men’s Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-Final in London on 18 June 2017. The greatest
historical rivalry in World Hockey is a classic match involving these two
teams from the sub-continent
Olympic
Heroes. Nadia Comaneci remained an icon for glory, there are few such
heroes in Olympic History. (Urdu Content)
Cricket: Pakistan starts a tour under
Faulty Past.
The
2010 England tour had started on a faulty note when Shahid Afridi, the
appointed Test captain of the tour, in his moment of madness announced his
retirement at Lord’s after Pakistan lost the first of the two Tests against
Australia, and that too immediately after his debut as Test captain. Qamar
Ahmed recalls how Pakistan's dirty trio got greased.
A league of
their own - PCB deprives Pakistanis of Supper action Cash starved PCB
has arranged a league in haste focused only on financial gains while
Pakistan's cricket fan are licking dust in the major arena at home...